[LINK] Cuil search engine odd images

[Tom Worthington]

I tried the Cuil search engine <http://www.cuil.com/>. While the web 
pages found were okay, the images returned were a little odd. As an 
example, I searched for my own name 
<http://www.cuil.com/search?q=tom+worthington>. The web pages found 
were as expected: my home page, bio, some things I had written. But 
the photos did not seem to match the web pages.

Alongside my home page was a photo of some houses. Bedise something I 
wrote for the ACS was an image about "Campus Security". Beside 
"Photos of Tom Worthington" was a picture I took of a church. There 
was a cartoon next to "Some services provided", a picture of an organ 
keyboard next to something on e-document production and so on.

When I repeated the search I got different web pages but the same images.

Also I could find no mention on the Cuil site of how they intend to 
fund their service. But there is a blank column on the side of the 
page which looks like it is reserved to put ads in. But then perhaps 
this should all be seen of a sign of faith having Dot.Com boom type 
startups in recessionary times.



Tom Worthington FACS HLM tom.worthington at tomw.net.au Ph: 0419 496150
Director, Tomw Communications Pty Ltd            ABN: 17 088 714 309
PO Box 13, Belconnen ACT 2617                      http://www.tomw.net.au/
Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Australian National University